{"id":6604,"date":"2022-06-23T10:00:40","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T14:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/?p=6604"},"modified":"2022-06-22T17:38:31","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T21:38:31","slug":"downsells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/downsells","title":{"rendered":"Downsells\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Downsells\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Upsells\u2026<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/percent-1019730_1920-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"189\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/percent-1019730_1920-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/percent-1019730_1920-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/percent-1019730_1920-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/percent-1019730_1920-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/percent-1019730_1920-1536x1536.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/percent-1019730_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Cross sells\u2026<\/p>\n<p>All really good things\u2026 when done right!<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s a company I buy things from occasionally. Not expensive stuff \u2013 about a $20 item.<\/p>\n<p>After you complete the sale there\u2019s an offer for a similar item for about 50% off. If you say no, they offer you the same item\u2026 now for 75% off.<\/p>\n<p>It happens every single time I order \u2013 always the exact same item and always first for 50% off and then for 75% off.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Maybe it\u2019s just me, but it irritates me that if I say yes, the first time, I pay more than if I wait to say yes, the second time.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d love to be the person running this down sell.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019d test a half off the exact same item to see how that would work.<\/p>\n<p>And if I was going to offer a different item, I\u2019d offer it once at whatever the price is and if that one was a no, then I\u2019d offer a slightly different item at a slightly higher price than the first down sell offer (and test it at the same price too).<\/p>\n<p>Who knows, maybe they have tested it, and this is gets the best results.<\/p>\n<p>I just find it a little off-putting that if I say no to the first offer, they make it again but for a lower price.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How about you? What do you think?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To Your Success \u2013<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-4638 alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/dianesig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"161\" height=\"107\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Downsells\u2026 Upsells\u2026 Cross sells\u2026 All really good things\u2026 when done right! There\u2019s a company I buy things from occasionally. Not expensive stuff \u2013 about a $20 item. After you complete the sale there\u2019s an offer for a similar item for about 50% off. If you say no, they offer you the same item\u2026 now for&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-style:italic; text-align:right; font-family:Georgia;\" class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/downsells\"class=\"readmore red-clr underline\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":6608,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[599],"tags":[29,196,13,1157,10,1156,30,708,1155,1158],"class_list":["post-6604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-general","tag-business","tag-coaching","tag-complete-marketing-systems","tag-cross-sell","tag-diane-conklin","tag-down-sell","tag-entrepreneur","tag-articles-marketing","tag-offer","tag-upsell"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6604"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6612,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6604\/revisions\/6612"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.completemarketingsystems.com\/cms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}